Lifeforms is a 1994 double album by experimental electronica group The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London

The Future Sound of London is a prolific British electronic music band composed of Garry Cobain and Brian Dougans. The duo are often credited with pushing the boundaries of electronic music experimentation and of pioneering a new era of dance music...

. With time, it has become their best-known album and is considered to be an important and influential classic of avante garde electronic music.

The album

It achieved commercial success and produced hit singles such as "Cascade

Cascade (song)

"Cascade" is the first single from Future Sound of London's 1994 Lifeforms album. It is a series of variations on the song "Cascade", all different from the album's version as is customary for most FSOL singles.-Track listing:# "Cascade: Part 1"...

" and "Lifeforms".

FSOL created this around the same time as they were finishing Tales of Ephidrina

Tales of Ephidrina

Tales of Ephidrina is an ambient/techno album by electronica artists The Amorphous Androgynous, better known as Future Sound of London , which was released in 1993...

, and the more complex, ambient direction they were taking resulted in Lifeforms. The artwork also progressed from previous works, with soon to be familiar images of the "Witch Girl" Sheuneen Ta, and the "Spike" computer model – sometimes referred to as the Electronic Brain – appearing on the sleeve for the first time.

The album was certified Silver (over 60,000 units sold) by British Phonographic Industry (BPI).

Disc One

1. "Cascade" – 5:59
2. "Ill Flower" – 3:24
3. "Flak" – 4:53
4. "Bird Wings" – 1:30
5. "Dead Skin Cells" – 6:50
6. "Lifeforms" – 5:18 (Feat. Elizabeth Frazer)
7. "Eggshell" – 6:45
8. "Among Myselves" – 5:52

Disc Two

1. "Domain" – 2:48
2. "Spineless Jelly" – 4:41
3. "Interstat" – 0:55
4. "Vertical Pig" – 6:44
5. "Cerebral" – 3:30
6. "Life Form Ends" – 5:03
7. "Vit" – 6:48
8. "Omnipresence" – 6:39
9. "Room 208" – 6:12
10. "Elaborate Burn" – 3:15
11. "Little Brother" – 5:13

Media

For samples of the title track see Lifeforms (song).

Chart Position

Year	Chart	Position
1994	UK Albums Chart UK Albums Chart The UK Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales in the United Kingdom. It is compiled every week by The Official Charts Company and broadcast on a Sunday on BBC Radio 1 , and published in Music Week magazine and on the OCC website .To qualify for the UK albums chart...	#6

Crew

• Written and produced by The Future Sound of London
• Engineered by Yage
• Flak written by Dougans/Cobain/Fripp/Williams/Grossart/Thompson/Nightingale
• Omnipresence written by Dougans/Cobain/Schulze
• Soundbytes on Flak (and Cascade, uncredited) by Ozric Tentacles
  Ozric Tentacles
  Ozric Tentacles are an instrumental rock band from Somerset, England, whose music can loosely be described as psychedelic or space rock. Formed in 1983, the band has released 28 albums as of 2011, and become a cottage industry selling over a million albums worldwide despite never having major...
  
  
• Guitar textures and bytes on Flak by Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp
  Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
  
  
• Tabla Tronics on Life Form Ends by Talvin Singh
  Talvin Singh
  Talvin Singh Matharoo , is a producer and composer and tabla player, known for creating an innovative fusion of Indian classical music and drum and bass...
  
  
• Vocal texture on Cerebral from a session with Toni Halliday
  Toni Halliday
  Antoinette "Toni" Halliday is an English musician best known as the lead vocalist, lyricist, and occasional guitarist of the band Curve.-Early life and career:...
  
   (of Curve
  Curve
  In mathematics, a curve is, generally speaking, an object similar to a line but which is not required to be straight...
  
  )
• "Among Myselves" features samples from the David Cronenberg
  David Cronenberg
  David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the...
  
   movie Scanners
  Scanners
  Scanners is a 1981 science-fiction horror film written and directed by David Cronenberg and starring Jennifer O'Neill, Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, and Patrick McGoohan...
  
  .
• Elizabeth Fraser
  Elizabeth Fraser
  Elizabeth Davidson Fraser is a Scottish singer best known as the vocalist for the pioneer alternative rock group Cocteau Twins...
  
  sings vocals on the title track "Lifeforms".
• Artwork and photography credits include: FSOL, Buggy G Riphead, Peter Atkinson, Stephen Marks, P.Knott, Alistair Shay, Martin Poole and Olaf Wendt, the latter of whom designed the 'spike'/'electronic brain' model.